Pablo Torre

It brings us to, frankly, the population that has most acutely experienced that at the Garden, which has been current and former Knicks beat writers.

You know, speaking of the ring cam and speaking of having, you know, these eyes and ears in the sky, there is a working assumption in the media room where these reporters file their stories that it might be bugged.

And that there's the running joke of, you know, when they're criticizing a roster move, something the team did.

They point up at the ceiling and say...

Did you hear that, James?

You know, and it's kind of a joke.

It's kind of not.

I think all the fans are doing that now.

What one Knicks writer said to us, and they asked for our main anonymous for fear of retribution, they told us this story.

These reporters, by the way, when active conversation is like, should we log into the gardens Wi-Fi?

Because they fear all of that data being accessible by the people trying to know everything they can about who they're talking to.

It brings us back to that thing about speech of like,

journalists, first amendment seems obvious.

You should be able to criticize and report however you see fit.

When you walk into the garden, it speaks to, again, this sort of like unwritten detente in which billionaires tolerate journalists because that has been custom.

But legally, do they have to?

This is where we make this first take for a second.

The Mount Rushmore of whistleblowers, you know, Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers, it's up there.

But Snowden is as impactful, arguably the most impactful whistleblower of all time.

And so look, with all due apologies to Deep Throat, to Mark Feltz, and everyone else on the list, I do want to show a slide from a PowerPoint presentation because Pablo Torre finds out loves PowerPoint presentations, it turns out.